Matthew Mace Barbee, Associate Professor and Chair of English

This is the homepage for Matthew Mace Barbee, Assistant Professor and Chair of English at Siena Heights University. Using the links at the top of the page you can view my C.V., information about my work, and links to my very rarely updated blog. My main areas of interest are American Literature and Culture, The U.S. South, African-American Literature and Culture, Race and Ethnicity, and Media Studies. In years past I have taught courses in composition and American and African-American cultural and ethnic studies at Defiance College (Ohio), Bowling Green State Univerisity (Ohio), Marymount University (Virginia), and Washington State University.I am an alumnus of Bowling Green State Univerisity (Ph.D., American Culture Studies), Washington State University (M.A., English) and the College of Wooster (B.A., English).My research focuses on the interesections of race, memory and communal belonging in the contemporary U.S. South. I study a range of forms of cultural production, especially fiction, memoir, music, visual culture and public discourse and look to elucidate the complexities of community and identity in the U.S. South.